Improvement in cart-loading scoops



hanging all these several parts to an axle, P,

UNITED STATEs PATENT OFFICE.

AARON VREELAND, OF MON'I` CLAIR, NEW JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN CART-LOADING SCOOPS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N0. 155,845, dated October13, 1974 application filed February 12,1874.

To all rwhom it may concern Be it known that I, AARON VREELAND, of MontClair, in the county of Essex and State of NenT Jersey, have invented anImproved Cart-Loading Scoop, of which the following is a specication:

By reference to my patent of December 9, 187 3, it will be seen that thescoop Aaud swingwindlasses g and j and their supports H and K are hungto the joint-pin o, connected with the rear end of the cart E.

My present improvement consists, first, in

on which are the Wheels Q. These Wheels are spread apart on a long axle,so that in use they Will come outside of the wheels of the cart E. (SeeFig. 2.) The party in operating the windlass J will, from the rear, stepupon this axle, and thus the more etfectually operate the scoop in theprocess of emptying it; and the Wheels and axle become a separatecarriage for the transportation ot' the scoop when not connected with acart. The second part of my improvement consists in the mode ofattaching the scoop and its appliances to the cart, which is by theframe S connected with the axle P. When the scoop and cart are to beconnected the front end of the frame is raised, and the cart is backedup nearly to the axle P, when the frame is let down along by the outsideof the cart-box until the front end drops over the front end of thecart, and thus the Wheels and scoop are drawn along. With thisarrangement the chain or rope m in passing from the Windlass j issecured tothe frame S at the front end.

Other modes of attaching the axle and dependencies to the cart may benaturally suggested.

When the cart is loaded the frame is raised, and the cart is drawn awayfor unloading.

I claiml. The combination of the scoop A and swing -Windlasses g and j,supports H and K, and rods B, and ropes m, connected with the axle P,substantially as aud for the purposes set forth.

2. The axle P, with which is connected the scoop A and swing-windlassesg and j, attached to the body of the cart E by means of the frame S,substantially as shown, and for the purpose specified.

AARON VREELAND. Witnesses:

HORACE HARRIS, GHAs. I. Ross.

